Men's Tennis

Spartans Put in Solid Effort at ITA Regionals

Oct 01, 2010

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. - The York College men's tennis team fell in the USTA/ITA Southeast Regional Men's Tennis Championship held at University of Mary Washington, but several Spartans put together a great performance as the season vastly approaches.

York senior Colin Jones strung together a solid performance during the weekend in the fourth singles flight. In the semifinals, Jones defeated Ryan Davis 6-1, 6-4, but eventually fell in the finals against Muhlenberg opponent Jason Teitelbaum 6-3, 6-1.

In the second singles, Ryan Harvey and Travis Klein both reached the quarterfinals of the singles match. However, Harvey then fell to Joonas Karjalainen 6-0, 6-2, while Klein lost to Eric Rouff 6-4, 6-2.

Senior James Villari displayed a promising effort, by beating Kevin Stamm in the quarterfinals 6-0, 6-4, but dropped his third match to the eventual winner, Shane Gunther in the semifinals 6-3, 2-6, 6-0.

The Spartans fell behind early in the first singles match, as Gavin Smith put up a good fight, but could not muster a win over Ryan Rauck, a talented player from Johns Hopkins, 6-3, 6-4.

In doubles play, Hoskins and Villari won the first round against Muhlenberg Rob Buesser and Ross Handler 8-3, but could not pick up a second win as the pair lost to the eventual winners of the bracket. Ryan Harvey and Phil Myers defeated Andrew Deckert and Marc Menzer in the quarterfinals 8-3. In the semifinals, the second double squad was unable to beat Brad DeWitt and Martin Donaire, falling 8-2.

In first doubles play, Jones and Klein fell in the first round to Peter Bookman and Cameron Relic in a close 8-6 match. Justin Hostetter and Smith were also defeated in the first round to Anthony Collard and Daniel Park, 8-2.

With a promising effort by numerous Spartan players, March 1 holds promise as the York squad will travel to Hilton Head, South Carolina to open up their 2011 campaign.